John Clarke (physicist) in the context of "Christ's College, Cambridge"

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⭐ Core Definition: John Clarke (physicist)

John Clarke (born 10 February 1942) is a British experimental physicist and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his various works on measurement devices based on superconductivity. Steven Girvin has called Clarke "the godfather of superconducting electronics".

In the 1980s, Clarke led a research team, that included John M. Martinis and Michel Devoret. Their discoveries in macroscopic quantum phenomena using the Josephson effect earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2025.

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👉 John Clarke (physicist) in the context of Christ's College, Cambridge

Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 250 graduate students. The college was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as God's House. In 1505, the college was granted a new royal charter, was given a substantial endowment by Lady Margaret Beaufort, and changed its name to Christ's College, becoming the twelfth of the Cambridge colleges to be founded in its modern form.

Alumni of the college include the poet John Milton, the naturalist Charles Darwin, as well as the Nobel Laureates Martin Evans, James Meade, Alexander Todd, Duncan Haldane, and John Clarke. The Master is Lord McDonald of Salford.

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Experimental physicist → University of California, Berkeley → Superconductivity → Steven Girvin → John M. Martinis → Michel Devoret → Macroscopic quantum phenomena → Josephson effect → 2025 Nobel Prizes →